Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia is a serious disorder which affects how a person thinks, feels and acts. Someone with schizophrenia may have difficulty distinguishing between what is real and what is imaginary; may be unresponsive or withdrawn; and may have difficulty expressing normal emotions in social situations.

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Sister Schizophrenic. NEED HELP!!!

dkim818
  • By dkim818 · New reply April 25, 2013
  • 4 replies
  • Hello everyone, My sister has been battling paranoia schizophrenia for the past 10-13 years now. As there have been a few flare ups, for the most part, her schizophrenia has been sustained through the ...

Residential Care Facilities for Schizophrenia Patient?

dkim818
  • By dkim818 · New reply April 24, 2013
  • 1 reply
  • Hello everyone, My sister has been battling paranoia schizophrenia for the past 10-13 years now. As there have been a few flare ups, for the most part, her schizophrenia has been sustained through the ...

Battling Schizophrenia While Medication Stopped Working

dkim818
  • By dkim818 · Posted April 24, 2013
  • 0 replies
  • Hello everyone, My sister has been battling paranoia schizophrenia for the past 10-13 years now. As there have been a few flare ups, for the most part, her schizophrenia has been sustained through the ...

Mental Illness and Adult Daughter

tlynns
  • By tlynns · New reply March 6, 2013
  • 8 replies
  • I have a 28 year old daughter with some kind of mental illness. I am not sure what, since doctors will not tell us anything. She lives with us, will not get any help and has caused damage to our home ...

hear something weird!!!

rosesrred
  • By rosesrred · New reply February 22, 2013
  • 1 reply
  • i was dreaming last night about a movie on a certain channel. in the dream i was scanning the guide to the movie, saw the name the movie and what channel it was on. i woke up to start my day, turn the ...

schizoaffective

infiltrat
  • By infiltrat · New reply February 8, 2013
  • 19 replies
  • Hello, My name is Andrew. I found this site and tough, Eh!! why not register... Anyways i am here because i want to see if i can meet people here that have similar mental health issues, i am schizoaffective ...

my Dad is off of his meds, again...

DadinOh
  • By DadinOh · New reply February 8, 2013
  • 2 replies
  • My Dad was diagnosed bi-polar/manic depressive with schizophrenic tendencies back in 97, he was 45 yrs old at the time. He has had 2 different doctor's since then. He was initially just given depakote ...

RE-: New Scz Anon Support Grp here;-

Aglick12
  • By Aglick12 · Posted January 27, 2013
  • 0 replies
  • Hi !! - I'm Andrew !!, in the Greater Madison, WI area,(where this group is founded) & I'd like to be your friendly facilitator here from someone like myself who's been on most meds dealing with various ...

Greetings...

Uttley
  • By Uttley · New reply January 24, 2013
  • 9 replies
  • Hi. I just found this group. I have Sz, and have written a book about coping with it. It's available at Amazon and SmashWords... and later this week, I will be doing a promo giveaway of ten copies. If ...

Hating this illness

Yammer1993
  • By Yammer1993 · New reply December 17, 2012
  • 4 replies
  • I hate having Schizophrenia. I actually have Schizoaffective Disorder. I hate being paranoid and thinking that everybody even the people at my Sunday meetings are against me. I hate having Visual AND ...

Medications

kellysmind
  • By kellysmind · Posted December 15, 2012
  • 0 replies
  • I take respirdone, zoloft, nurotin, visteril and two blood pressure meds. I was on lithium since 1995 but devolped stage 3 kidney disease from taking it. I have also been on allot of medications, including ...

atlanta schizophrenics anonymous

bamberg82
  • By bamberg82 · New reply October 16, 2012
  • 4 replies
  • Anybody interested in joining ...

Newly diagnosed Daughter

GOTTRAVELPRO
  • By GOTTRAVELPRO · New reply October 6, 2012
  • 5 replies
  • My daughter has finally come home. After 10 years of living in the woods, homeless, in ghettos in the US she called me. Now that she is home and safe...now what? As usual, she doesn't recognize the need ...

Hypersexuality

Yammer1993
  • By Yammer1993 · Posted September 5, 2012
  • 0 replies
  • I have Schizoaffective Disorder. I am married for almost 19 years. I have been off of my Clozaril for about 4 months and I am medicine resistant so they are going to give me the long acting month injection ...

Guilt over my dad

RiotZombie
  • By RiotZombie · New reply July 26, 2012
  • 24 replies
  • Hello, all. My name is Rowan and I'm 18 years old. My dad has schizophrenia. When I was younger, he was just a weird guy. He was obsessed with exercise and eating healthy, he'd study math and religion ...

atlanta schizophrenics anonymous

bamberg82
  • By bamberg82 · Posted July 23, 2012
  • 0 replies
  • Anybody wish to join us ...

A question

lamikens
  • By lamikens · New reply July 8, 2012
  • 1 reply
  • For anyone who has been clinically diagnosed with schizophrenia, what is it like? I know that's a very broad question, so I'll try to be more specific. What I'm wondering about is how the positive symptoms ...

New here.

David48
  • By David48 · New reply April 15, 2012
  • 1 reply
  • I am having a hard to with my disability.I have hand it all my life.and I know it well never stop for me ...

Hallucinations - voices and sounds

lamikens
  • By lamikens · Posted March 23, 2012
  • 0 replies
  • Hello everybody! I am trying to learn about hearing voices in people who have bipolar, schizophrenia, or any other mental illness. If you have heard voices (or sounds), can you describe your experience ...

Hello to all:

Jaime2121
  • By Jaime2121 · New reply February 21, 2012
  • 4 replies
  • I came down with paranoid schziphrenia for 14 years now, I am tired from it, and I have attacks that don't go away, related to panic attacks, I also have ADD and a handwriting disability, anyone with ...

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